microstimulate

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English

Etymology

micro- +‎ stimulate

Verb

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  1. To stimulate individual nerve cells using a small electric current.
    • 2015 August 22, “Effects of Microstimulation in the Anterior Intraparietal Area during Three-Dimensional Shape Categorization”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      We trained rhesus monkeys to categorize disparity-defined 3D shapes and examined AIP's contribution to 3D-shape categorization by microstimulating in clusters of 3D-shape selective AIP neurons during task performance.